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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Mattie tried stenography and bookkeeping, _________________________________.
(a) Her health broke down.
(b) She had great success.
(c) She became valuable to her family members.
(d) Her attitude prevented her from succeeding.

2. Wharton compares Mattie's hair to "a drift of mist on the moon," which suggests ___________________________.
(a) Fear and doom.
(b) Fantasy and impermanence.
(c) Ugliness and coarseness.
(d) Logic and reality.

3. Which of her partners offers Mattie a ride home?
(a) Denis Eady.
(b) Andrew Hale.
(c) Lawyer Varnum.
(d) Jothan Powell.

4. Zeena believes Mattie will leave soon because ______________________________.
(a) Mattie has grown tired of Ethan's advances.
(b) Mattie has found another post in town.
(c) Mattie will get married to Denis Eady.
(d) Mattie will return to live with her own family.

5. Wharton compares the darkened farmhouses to ________________.
(a) Hospitals.
(b) Haunted houses.
(c) Gravestones.
(d) Sanctuaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mattie's only skills include _______________________________________.

2. Ethan feels too constrained to try to touch Mattie inside the house because ____________________________________________.

3. Zeena's cat ____________________________.

4. Ethan and Mattie talk frankly for the first time about __________________.

5. Zeena may have become sickly because ______________________________.

(see the answer key)

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